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I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. - (thanks, Hugh Gallagher)

Link the following players (there are a couple of more players who also make the list but i have left them out deliberately for now)

Kapil Dev, Sourav Ganguly, Saeed Anwar, Jonty Rhodes, Mark Waugh

I pulled up Kapil Dev's record and thought about it. And seeing Saeed Anwar's name on the list too suspected that what links them is that their highest ODI score is greater than their highest test score. If this is correct, good one - I wonder who the others are. Perhaps someone still actively playing with a low number of matches, e.g. Andrew Symonds and Dhoni.

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I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. - (thanks, Hugh Gallagher)

Link the following players (there are a couple of more players who also make the list but i have left them out deliberately for now)

Kapil Dev, Sourav Ganguly, Saeed Anwar, Jonty Rhodes, Mark Waugh

I pulled up Kapil Dev's record and thought about it. And seeing Saeed Anwar's name on the list too suspected that what links them is that their highest ODI score is greater than their highest test score. If this is correct, good one - I wonder who the others are. Perhaps someone still actively playing with a low number of matches, e.g. Andrew Symonds and Dhoni.

ps: is making this thread a "sticky" making it less obvious? coz it is sitting there on top with a bunch of other threads that i rarely open!

Maybe only initially, but once people are aware of it, then it will always be easily accessible. However, if kop and you think it would be better as a non-sticky thread, let me know, and I will oblige.

MockTurtle

Link the following players (there are a couple of more players who also make the list but i have left them out deliberately for now)

Kapil Dev, Sourav Ganguly, Saeed Anwar, Jonty Rhodes, Mark Waugh

I pulled up Kapil Dev's record and thought about it. And seeing Saeed Anwar's name on the list too suspected that what links them is that their highest ODI score is greater than their highest test score. If this is correct, good one - I wonder who the others are. Perhaps someone still actively playing with a low number of matches, e.g. Andrew Symonds and Dhoni.

You are right. That was what i had in mind and these are players(batsmen) who have played 50+ tests and have a higher ODI score than their best test score. The two others are Alistair Campbell and Ken Rutherford. I read this piece of tidbit in Cricinfo a while ago.(wonder if there are more now?)

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. - (thanks, Hugh Gallagher)

Not asked but another unique aspect about one of the named mentioned:Aravinda de Silva's streak was at the very start of his career. He did not get his first duck until his 75th innings-- that is a record. Interestingly, Geraint Jones has played 47 innings in his career without recording a duck. Let's see if he gets the opportunity to go for Aravinda's record.

Sahir - right on both counts. Glenn Turner interestingly scored a duck in the very first innings he played, and never scored a duck ever since. So his streak represents the total number of runs he made. Did not know about Geraint Jones. Over to you for the next question.

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King pairs are rare in cricket, but one player in the history of Test cricket has the dubious honor of not only bagging a king pair, but also being the victim of a hat-trick ball in both innings of a Test match. Name that player.

Correct-- even more incredibly, he was victim to a hat-trick ball in both innings to the same bowler! TJ Matthews remains the only bowler to take 2 hat-tricks in a single Test. Funnily enough, despite 2 hat-tricks in one match (the only wickets he took in that match), Matthews never took a five-wicket haul in the 8 Tests he played, nor did he ever take more than 6 wickets in a match. The scorecard of the match:http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1910S/1912/TRI-TEST/AUS_RSA_T1_27-28MAY1912.htmlOver to you inoc.Oh yeah, applause for the right answer.

Correct-- even more incredibly, he was victim to a hat-trick ball in both innings to the same bowler! TJ Matthews remains the only bowler to take 2 hat-tricks in a single Test. Funnily enough, despite 2 hat-tricks in one match (the only wickets he took in that match), Matthews never took a five-wicket haul in the 8 Tests he played, nor did he ever take more than 6 wickets in a match. The scorecard of the match:http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1910S/1912/TRI-TEST/AUS_RSA_T1_27-28MAY1912.htmlOver to you inoc.Oh yeah, applause for the right answer.

I don't understand the captaincy here- so you have the same bowler in the 2nd innings on a hat trick and the batsman who gave it to him in the 1st innings is sent in to face him

There were plenty of records as far as sixes are concerned in the Test series:

Shahid Afridi tied most sixes by an individual in a series, 14, tying Wasim Raja, Flintoff, Pieterson, and HaydenBoth teams combined for 49 6s, smashing the record for most 6s in a 2-Test series, previously 40 held by NZ and England in 2001-2002 (Incidentally, the most 6s in a 5-Test series is only 2 higher at 51 in the 2005 Ashes)Most sixes by a side in a Test: Pak tied the record of 18 at Faisalabad, equalling WI against England in 1985-86Most combined 6s in a Test was set: a total of 27 at Faisalabad, smashing 23 of NZ v Eng at Christchurch (this was the extremely famous innings by Astle where he was going beserk at the end, chasing a huge target with just one wicket in hand, and set the record for the fastest Test double century)

Back in the good old days, teams would sometimes play timeless Tests. In other words, they would play till all innings came to a close, seemingly guaranteeing a result, regardless of how long it took. One such instance when England played South in a timeless Test, yet the match ended in a draw (not tied). How come?

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Back in the good old days, teams would sometimes play timeless Tests. In other words, they would play till all innings came to a close, seemingly guaranteeing a result, regardless of how long it took. One such instance when England played South in a timeless Test, yet the match ended in a draw (not tied). How come?